\u201cThe Jockey Club tried to have a conversation with Ho about withdrawing Hong Kong Bet for the greater good, but was told in no uncertain terms that the horse was running.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cIf the Jockey Club bans Ho, he comes out on the offensive (he is no shrinking violet), incites his supporters and calls the club ‘anti-China’ \u2013 which is not ideal when it opened a HK$3.8 billion training facility in the mainland just 13 months ago and has hundreds of horses and staff there.<\/p>\n
\u201cYears have been spent building the Jockey Club\u2019s relationship with China, and it is the highest taxpayer in Hong Kong, so any perception it is ‘anti-government’ is not an option,\u201d the editorial concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) canceled an entire race meet at its Happy Valley Racecourse on Wednesday night over concerns that pro-democracy protesters planned to disrupt proceedings. HKJC said it took the precaution to safeguard racegoers, jockeys, employees and the racehorses themselves, after learning that large-scale protests were planned for the event because a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":115284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14577,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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